Stumpy Surgeons 1 - 1 landing party
The match of the entire series, a team of violent, bearded drunks facing off against slightly shorter violent, bearded drunks who remembered to put on armor before the game. Five players on the Norse team were knocked off the field in total (two badly hurt, one groin strain, two knocked out), though with only one moderately serious injury that would leave the runner out for the next game. The dwarves seemed to have the first half in the bag until their runner left the safety of the cage (bound by a few Norse players still up and about) to run for the goal line. The landing party dodged out of the grips of the dwarven blockers and took the ball, slipping out of the grip of the dwarves several times to get to the endzone. The landing party revealed their inner elves by successfully passing the ball and running it into the end zone in the first half, though attempting to do again in the second half led to losing the ball.
One of the Stumpy Surgeon's runners managed to run the ball to the end zone early in the second half, powered on by the recent Norse score. They smashed through the meager wall formed by the Norse and dove for the goal line, succeeding in a go-for-it for the point. The two Norse players who fell unconscious in the first half woke up upon hearing the Dwarves had scored, but their help could not bring the Norse victory. The next run started with one dwarf blocker getting punched out by a Norse lineman. The dwarves attempted, and succeeded a second time at breaking the defensive line of the Norse, dwindling from lack of players. Tragically, the dwarven team decided not to buy an apothecary, and Nuffle punished them by killing one of their runners when he ran through the tackle zone of a Norse lineman. The dwarves attempted to pass the ball, and it ended exactly the way you expect, with the ball ending up in the middle of a crowd of bearded suits of armor. The game was stopped just before the second dwarven runner got to the end zone, but luckily he didn't fall to the same fate as the other runner.
All in all, a satisfying match. Even without victory, one of my linemen still managed to punch through dwarven armor, and only three players got injured (on my team anyway). Onward! To future victory!